Father Evan Simington

Fr. Evan Simington was baptized and raised an Episcopalian before entering into full communion with the Catholic Church through the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter on October 5th, 2014. He was born in Marietta, Georgia and spent the majority of his youth in Florida. While in college at Florida State University, Fr. Evan began to seriously discern his calling to the priesthood. After graduating from F.S.U. in 2008, Fr. Evan went to seminary at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. Shortly after graduating from Nashotah House, Fr. Evan came into communion with the Catholic Church, and was sent for further studies at St. Mary's Catholic Seminary in Houston, Texas. In the course of his studies in Houston, he was ordained to the diaconate on May 31, 2016, and then to priesthood by Bishop Steven Lopes, the Ordinariate's bishop, June 29, 2017 on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

Bishop Lopes assigned Fr. Evan to St. Alban's as pastoral administrator, beginning his tenure in July of 2017. Fr. Evan also serves the Roman Catholic diocese of Rochester, as a parochial vicar assigned to the St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish community in Irondequoit, N.Y.